Wire’s vision is to shield people’s digital privacy. We’ve done this for 1:1 and group conversations by building the most feature rich, cross-device and secure messaging platform. Today, we’re announcing the launch of our end-to-end encrypted bot API to make the same secure platform available for developers.

Integrations with external services, and chat bots in particular, have been one of the big hypes of 2016 with thousands of services launched on different messaging platforms. However, developers and organizations that operate with sensitive personal data — banks, medical and governmental institutions, Internet of Things providers and others — have been reluctant to take advantage of this new channel due to privacy concerns.